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Natasha Fithen and Jose David Vallejo welcomed Donatella Vallejo into their home November 21, 2012. Donatella was born at Providence Holy Cross in Mission Hills, Calif. She weighed 7 lbs. 8 oz. and was 19 3/4" long. Maternal grandmother is Scotty Bacon and Katelyn Worley is Donatella's aunt. Paternal grandparents are Jose David Vallejo and Mercedes Vallejo-Mora of Guadalajara, Mexico....
Air Force Reserve Airman Adrian M. Moffet graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Moffet is...
Ilan Coberly, a sixth-grader in the Odessa schools, has been recognized by the Northwest Chapter of the American Red Cross under its Honoring Hometown Heroes program. At a luncheon held at Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights on November 15, Coberly received an award and an American flag for his efforts last January to save a dog that had fallen through thin ice on a pond just outside of Odessa. After school on January 11, Coberly and two friends were walking near the pond...
OH vs. Republic Junior varsity Friday night’s junior varsity game against Republic gave the young team its first victory by a score of 44 - 21. Freshman Casey Schlomer led the JV team with 17 points. Also scoring were Carley Williams with 11, Lanessa Simon 12 and Kaeli Shockley 4. Schlomer also had 11 rebounds, one steal and 2 assists. Simon had 7 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 assists. Varsity The varsity game was not an easy one for the Titans. Republic took the win 53 - 25. Chels...
The Odessa Public Development Authority (OPDA) has signed a design/build contract with Spokane-based Garco Construction for a new 7,000 square foot USDA livestock processing facility to be built in the Odessa Industrial Park. The OPDA will lease the facility to the Livestock Processors Cooperative Association (LPCA) with a purchase option. The LPCA was organized in 2010 under the leadership of the Cattle Producers of Washington (CPoW) and currently has 62 members. On October...
OH vs. Republic Junior varsity Stats on the JV game were unavailable. Varsity The Odessa-Harrington Titan boys basketball team started off their season with a bang by walloping their first two opponents. The Titans defeated the Republic Tigers 61-31 on Friday at home in Odessa, coming out strong and maintaining intensity throughout the game. O-H 19 11 15 16 61 Republic 3 9 13 6 31 Cade Weber led the Titan offense with 20 points, while Justin Hunt added another 16. Jacob...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor's note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Nov. 26: No drugs were found by the drug dog during a visit to the Reardan School. A caller advised that a stop sign was found in Cottonwood Creek near the Davenport skatepark. Wilbur ambulance...
“Christmas Time’s a Comin’…..Home for the Holidays”, familiar lines from popular Christmas songs, sounds, sights and aromas bring visions of seasonal delights to our minds. Time to get out your holiday recipes and plot a baking plan. I’ve added a new favorite to my list of Christmas recipes. Faux Pecan Pie was a hit with the family at Thanksgiving. This pie is made with pretzels, and if you choose a nut free brand (not produced in a factory where nuts are processed)...
After 11 years as a Lincoln County Commissioner, Dennis Bly is retiring at the end of the year. The public is welcome to join him and his colleagues to wish him all the best on Wednesday, December 12, from 1- 3 p.m. in the Commissioners Chambers at the Courthouse, 450 Logan Street in Davenport. Cake and refreshments will be served. Please call 509-725-3031 for more information if you have questions....
Elizabeth Dammel, long time Mohler resident, died December 4, 2012, at home at the age of 101. She was the first daughter born to John Peterson Nyberg and Alma Harshbarger Nyberg in Greenacres, Wash. on May 21, 1911. Elizabeth was known as Betty Nyberg when she graduated from North Central High School in Spokane, acquired her teaching credentials from Cheney Normal and became a teacher at the Liberty Lake schoolhouse. She married Ernest Womach in June 1936, and they moved to...
State senator Bob Morton, R-Kettle Falls, has announced his retirement from the state Senate and issued this statement: “It has been an honor to serve in the Washington State Senate for the past 22 years. I thank the people of the 7th Legislative District for the opportunity to represent them. I appreciate their support and insight into how we could make our district and state a better place for future generations. I’d also like to recognize the dedicated support of my leg...
“As my daughter was heading off to Afghanistan in March 2011,” said Susan Ryan Walter of Odessa, “she said that it would be cool if I could make patriotic quilts for everyone. Lovely idea, but all my red, white and blue material was home in Washington, and I was in Florida to house- and pet-sit for her while she was gone!” Walter asked members of the Yahoo group, Stashbusters and members of the quiltingboard.com if they would donate a 12-inch block so she could make the qui...
Odessa merchants and business operators put considerable effort into their preparations for the holiday season 95 years ago. Here is the report by The Odessa Record in its issue of December 14, 1928: The business section of Odessa is “dolled up” for Christmas. The decorations, both for the streets and the stores, are the most elaborate ever seen here, which shows there is a real Christmas spirit in the air. The Odessa Commercial Club Decorations committee, consisting of E.J. Wachter, Ed Koth, H.G. Cordes and Fred Schuman, did...
Newly elected Lincoln County commissioner Mark Stedman will be the guest speaker at the 2012 annual Christmas dinner hosted by the Odessa and Canniwai Granges. The dinner will be held Friday, December 14, at Old Town Hall, beginning at 6 p.m. The menu will be a traditional turkey dinner, at a cost of $10 per diner. Everyone is welcome. Guests are asked to RSVP by December 10 to Ott Insurance at 982-0122. Donations to the Odessa Food Bank will also gladly be accepted the evening of the dinner....
Friday, November 16, members of Canniwai Grange #837 distributed student dictionaries to third-graders at P.C. Jantz Elementary School. The program is a part of The Dictionary Project, a non-profit program dedicated to providing dictionaries to elementary schoolchildren. The program has distributed over 18 million dictionaries since its implementation in 1995....
In this last column on how to become a superstar student, Michael Geisen emphasizes balance. You need balance for yourself as well. Having a fulfilling community life and personal life will make you a healthier, happier and more interesting person. A balanced mind and a balanced life are important. Your future employers and the colleges or technical institutes you apply to won’t just be looking at your grades and SAT or ACT or AP test scores. They are going to consider your life skills and experiences. They want to know if y...
The United States is blessed with a reasonable supply of natural resources that we haven’t really utilized until recently. Along come new techniques and our government thinks we ought to share and sell to China. The United States and Russia lead the world with 611 and 589 billion cubic meters per year, respectively. Canada is third with 152 billion and Iran is fourth with 139 billion cubic meters. However, when it comes to proven reserves that determine the future, the picture is quite different! The world’s total known res...
I am so incredibly brilliant. I’ve been driving my latest automobile for two years now, and just discovered not only that it has fog lights, but that I’ve been driving with them ON for two years. My apologies to everyone. I know how annoying that can be. It just illustrates that my approach to new equipment may not be the best. I just hop in and start using whatever it is, figuring that the manual is only for when you run into problems, like setting the clock twice a yea...
I’m not going to give you permission in this piece to live a sedentary life, sitting at a desk at work all day and then on the couch watching television each evening. But medical science increasingly has some evidence of a general principal your mother warned you about: there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. A few folks really throw themselves headlong into aerobic exercise, running, biking, rowing or swimming for hours and hours each week. Most of these hard-core...
Byron Behne watches the grain markets for the Odessa Union Warehouse. 11/30/12: Wheat prices closed the month on a sour note as soft white dropped 20 cents from Thursday. That spurred the Egyptians into action as they announced a tender after the close whether or not there's any Black Sea wheat in play will probably determine our direction on Monday. Soft white has been doing some decent export business recently with 7.5 million bushels sold this week, leading all classes....
Operators of six grain export terminals – including United Grain Corp.’s facility at the Port of Vancouver – struck an aggressive tone last week in giving union dockworkers until December 8 to accept their “last and final offer.” In a statement emailed to The Columbian by Pat McCormick, spokesman for the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, the group said it’s offering the International Longshore and Warehouse Union increases in “an already generous wage and benefit package” in exchange for changes in work rules s...
At its regular meeting November 28, school superintendent Suellen White told the Odessa School Board she was recommending a rollback of the 2013 levy passed last February (and to be collected beginning in April of 2013). The original levy amount was $698,000. She recommended rolling back $48,000 of that figure. This will mean collecting $24,000 less during the spring budget cycle and $24,000 less next fall in the next budget cycle. The rollback was made possible because several of the threatened budget cuts to school funding...
The Floch Memorial Games will be played this year at Big Bend Community College on Friday, December 7. Odessa/Harrington will be the home team, playing Soap Lake High School with both girls varsity and boys varsity teams playing. There will be no JV games. BBCC will play Bellevue Community College (men only) following the two high-school games. The gate receipts and donations will go to the Ryan Floch Memorial Scholarship, which supports student athletes graduating from Class B high schools in Eastern Washington. The Floch Me...
